“Kevin Youkilis denies that there’s a romance, but our spies in the skyboxes say the Red Sox slugger and Tom Brady’s sis, Nancy, were looking veeeeery cozy as they watched 12 and the Pats cool the Jets at Gillette Stadium on Sunday.

“They were mugging it up in the box,” said Someone Who Was There

My Fox Boston says Youk is available after splitting with his girlfriend more than a year ago. “The couple had a wedding in Mexico in 2008, but never legally became husband and wife,” they say.

The obvious question is: why was the story was pulled? Did someone at the Herald feel like the Red Sox are already being scrutinized enough for one day? Did they find out definitively that the two are not dating?